It is, however, so much less expensive than completely replacing your cabinets.

Further still, the costs of replacing and refacing your cabinets are more than monetary. As you’ll soon find out, refacing your kitchen cabinets might help you out in a few other ways.

Simple

Some of you have probably never replaced or refaced cabinets. Consequently, you’re going to have to take our word for it when we say that refacing is simpler than replacing.

Refacing usually involves replacing your old cabinet doors with new ones. Obviously, the process is more complex than replacing doors, but you get the point. You could learn to reface a cabinet more quickly than you could learn to replace one.

Replacing cabinets, on the other hand, is complicated. You remove the entire cabinet from the wall and replace it with a new one. Needless to say, there are a lot more things to consider when you take the whole unit off of the wall.

What’s the takeaway here?

Don’t replace your cabinets unless you absolutely have to or want to. Refacing is simpler.

Fast

When something is simpler than an alternative, it isn’t necessarily faster than that alternative.

This isn’t one of those cases.

Kitchen cabinet refacing is undoubtedly faster than the other option. The speed at which you can reface your cabinets is convenient for everyone involved.

You don’t have to give up your kitchen for too long, which means that you’ll be back to eating those homecooked meals in no time.

Oh, and the constant bang and clang of the process will be short-lived.

More Options

There are only so many cabinet sets that you can buy. Granted, there are a lot cabinet sets out there.

Even so, refacing your kitchen cabinets definitely provides you with more options. When you buy a cabinet set, that cabinet’s design is set in stone.

When you reface a cabinet, however, the possibilities are literally endless.

You can get pre-painted cabinets with all sorts of designs. You can buy unpainted cabinet doors and paint them yourself.

You can even make all of the cabinets’ designs the same or mix and match the designs to your heart’s content. Whatever you do is on you.

In other words, you can customize refaced cabinet doors until they become exactly what you’re looking for.

Eco-friendly

Some of you probably haven’t put much thought into how eco-friendly your decor is.

Which is totally fine.

Still, thinking about it from time to time doesn’t hurt, which is why we want you to think about what happens to the wood you discard when you replace your cabinets.